Max Lerner
Journalist
1902-12-20
Quotes by Max Lerner
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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
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What counted was not the facts but the fears.
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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
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What counted was not the facts but the fears.
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A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
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Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
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The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
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The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
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America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is a chaos.
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What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.
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If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.
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There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.
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Human history, if you read it right, is the record of the efforts to tame Father. Next to striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
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It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.
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It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security
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The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
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When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
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